Can someone tell me the password for deleting accountability in Ontario? If it's as obvious as "McGuinty" we should change it. Click here to read the rest.
We're told Canada could sign a treaty to stop war and oppression if only the prime minister weren't so mean. Specifically the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) adopted by the UN General Assembly on April 2 and endorsed by over 60 countries since opened for signature on June 3. It covers conventional weapons from handguns to missiles and "battle tanks". And apparently it's a very good thing. Never mind the details. Click here to read the rest.
If Brent Rathgeber's footsteps echo as he walks through Parliament it's not because he's all alone after leaving the Conservative caucus. It's because he's walking through history. Click here to read the rest.
When a British soldier was slaughtered in London in broad daylight by people shouting Allahu Akbar, the British government typically threatened to crack down on illegal hate speech that is, in fact, already punished from anyone except Muslim extremists, while insisting there is no problem of Muslim extremism. It will not do. Click here to read the rest.
The Stephen Harper administration is stonewalling the Nigel Wright-Mike Duffy scandal with typical icy contempt. But their non-response invites a series of questions they not only cannot answer but, fatally, seem not to have asked. Click here to read the rest.
On Wednesday Globe and Mail arch-pundit Jeffrey Simpson called the Harper administration "a government of salesmen, not statesmen" who "don't let facts stand in the way of the pitch" because they've replaced good old broad-minded Red Toryism with a "narrower ideology". This deft rendering of the conventional wisdom managed, remarkably, to insult both salesman and ideologues while being exactly backwards. Click here to read the rest.
The B.C. NDP face plant was so bad they'll be getting sympathy cards from the Toronto Maple Leafs. Almost the only consolation is they fell on the pollsters and pundits confident they'd win. So what went wrong? Click here to read the rest.
If someone in the PMO paid off a big chunk of my mortgage, how much would you trust my coverage of politics? Now, what if they did it for a legislator? It's wrong, totally wrong. And dangerous to our Constitution. Click here to read the rest.